“It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it—not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it.”

“Pirates could happen to anyone.”

“Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”

“Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.”

“what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.”

“I write fantasy. The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.”

“I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.”

“I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.”

“What happened casually remains”

“It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.”